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Referee's report by Alfred North Whitehead, on a paper 'Mathematical contributions to the theory of evolution XIX. Second supplement to a memoir on skew variation' by Karl Pearson

Reference number: RR/23/70

Date: February 1916

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Sectional committee: Mathematics

Recommended for publication in Philosophical Transactions, in full. It 'concludes an important contribution' to the subject matter.

[Published in Philosophical Transactions A, 1916].

Endorsed on verso as received February 1916.

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RR/23/70
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February 1916
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Standardised form (type D)
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4 pages
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Manuscript

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Alfred North Whitehead

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Alfred North Whitehead, Referee's report by Alfred North Whitehead, on a paper 'Mathematical contributions to the theory of evolution XIX. Second supplement to a memoir on skew variation' by Karl Pearson, February 1916, RR/23/70, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/rr_23_70/referees-report-by-alfred-north-whitehead-on-a-paper-mathematical-contributions-to-the-theory-of-evolution-xix-second-supplement-to-a-memoir-on-skew-variation-by-karl-pearson, accessed on 16 May 2025

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